Saturday, December 7, 2013

omnium-gatherum \om-nee-uhm-GATH-er-uhm\, noun:

• a miscellaneous collection.

Omnium-gatherum comes from the Latin roots omnium meaning "of all" and the pseudo-Latin word gatherum meaning "a gathering."

Overcupensating

• When you get a larger beer/drink than what you need, or perhaps even want. The bigger the drink, the cooler the guy/girl... That's the mentality that leads to overcupensating.

Freddie had to go one step further, a 20oz draft of Crap Lite wasn't enough.... He got the 28oz. He's definitely overcupensating.

Trivia
What nation was the third to send a man into space?

• China, in 2003. Its manned spacecraft, launched into orbit from the Gobi Desert, was named Shenzhou 5, or Divine Vessel 5.

Holiday

• Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: a day to commemorate when Japan launched an unprovoked cowardly sneak-attack on a sleeping naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the US into WWII (1941)
  

  

History

• Delaware: the First State ratified the US Constitution and was admitted to the Union (1787)
• New York Philharmonic: America's oldest symphony orchestra debuted; they played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (1842)
• "The Blue Marble": famous photograph was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 as NASA's last moon mission flew away from Cape Canaveral (1972)

Birthdays

• Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1598
• Willa Cather 1873
• Eli Wallach 1915
• Ted Knight 1923
• Bent Frabric 1924
• Bobby Osborne 1931
• Ellen Burstyn 1932
• Carole Simpson 1940
• Harry Chapin 1942
• Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947
• Gary Morris 1948
• Tom Waits 1949
  
• Larry Bird (NBA) 1956
• Priscilla Barnes 1956
• Edd Hall 1958
• Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs) 1958
• C. Thomas Howell 1966
• Nicole Appleton (All Saints) 1975 
• Orli Shoshan 1976 (Shaak Ti from the Star Wars prequels)
• Sara Beth Bareilles 1979 - Singer